Month: October 2022

New social housing for Buncrana 2 min read

New social housing for Buncrana

Damian Dowds 11 months ago

Much-needed social housing is to be built near the Cockhill Road in Buncrana. Sixteen new homes, a mixture of two and three-bed semi-detached two-story houses... Read More

Threat to public health at Moville and Buncrana 3 min read

Threat to public health at Moville and Buncrana

Caoimhinn Barr 11 months ago

Untreated sewage continues to be dumped into Lough Foyle at Moville, while in Buncrana a lack of wastewater treatment threatens Lough Swilly, according to the... Read More

Top union role for Inishowen’s Owen Reidy 2 min read

Top union role for Inishowen’s Owen Reidy

Staff Reporter 11 months ago

Inishowen man Owen Reidy has been announced as the new General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU). His appointment and background will... Read More

Nightmarish winter for mica home owners 3 min read

Nightmarish winter for mica home owners

Toby Doherty 11 months ago

As temperatures drop, oil prices rise, cracks expand and insulation leaks, mica home owners face a fearful winter and a cold silence on the redress... Read More

Smart Villages win for Inishowen 2 min read

Smart Villages win for Inishowen

Paddy Doherty 11 months ago

This week two new free ‘Smart Village’ training courses start in Malin Head and Newtowncunningham. So what is a ‘Smart Village’? Why should the concept... Read More

More women needed in Inishowen politics 4 min read

More women needed in Inishowen politics

Toby Doherty 11 months ago

Rena Donaghey, Inishowen’s only woman councillor and one of just four women on Donegal County Council,  wants more female councillors elected to ensure women’s needs... Read More

Buncrana-Bridgend greenway mothballed after funding loss 4 min read

Buncrana-Bridgend greenway mothballed after funding loss

Damian Dowds 11 months ago

The Buncrana-Bridgend greenway, the centrepiece of the North West Greenway Network announced five years ago, has been mothballed. The €10 million in EU funding allocated... Read More

Inishowen’s Ukrainians tell of stress, guilt and hope 5 min read

Inishowen’s Ukrainians tell of stress, guilt and hope

Staff Reporter 11 months ago

Three new Ukrainian Support Workers in Inishowen want to do everything they can to help not only their people – but also the local community... Read More

Buncrana students ‘very traumatised’ by events at Creeslough 2 min read

Buncrana students ‘very traumatised’ by events at Creeslough

Caoimhinn Barr 12 months ago

Teenagers at Scoil Mhuire Buncrana have been left “very traumatised” following the disaster in Creeslough last Friday, school principal Rosaleen Grant has said. Transition year... Read More

Tragedy at Creeslough 2 min read

Tragedy at Creeslough

Paddy Doherty 12 months ago

The shock of the Creeslough tragedy is with us forever. Those of us on a bus, in a car driving home to Inishowen on the... Read More